The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools

The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools, a small primary school in Atlanta, Georgia, operated by Atlanta Public Schools, teaches 423 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Georgia's public schools average about 605 students each, so The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools sits 30% leaner than that benchmark.

Atlanta Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 49,945 students; The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools is among them.

Demographically, The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools lists that Black students make up the majority at 77%. Beyond that, the school lists 13% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Fulton County as a whole is about 43% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages around 13.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Fulton County (around 62%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.0%; this one delivers 24.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Fulton County shows median household earnings sit near $95,292, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Fulton County runs 205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,270 students), of which The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools is one.

The closest other public school is David T Howard Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. The John Hope-Charles Walter Hill Elementary Schools's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 420 (now 423). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 90% to 77%. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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